Mirror image

She never wanted to be a reflection
A mirrored, painted copy of perfection

That tiny wrinkle and freckles on her face
She reveled in their mark.

That perfect life of calm, poise and beauty
Reminded her of calm sea with underlying fury

She chose that life like the thunder storm.
She rode it out with unbridled joy

She lived in quiet moments of raindrops
And glistening rays of sunshine

She smiled at the happiness of the world
She cried with the sadness of the world

She lived in any world -
And did not deny her inner beast

For she remembered -
Under the painted perfected reflection
Lay an unbridled fury

Water's might

Shadows dance on savannah land

As evening sun kiss

Tips of golden grass

Rupununi - my beauty

My love, of dark and light

savannah blends to jungle

Grass to swamp - to ponds

Creeks to rivers - to sea

I love you at your water's might

The beast of derision

I tie my self to history

Struggling to be free

My mind in a haze

Blurred from the smoke

The threads that tie me-

Have been set ablaze

Here I stand again

Always - an intersection

My heart becomes my chain

A pressured decision

Obscuring the inner vision

What does it mean to be free?

Colour me in as you will

Pick at the pieces that you see

Causing my soul to flee

Into the abyss of indecision

Where the beast of constant derision

Fights to pierce the things I hold dear